Receiving system for electric waves



March 6, 1951 T. GOTTIER 2,544,311

RECEIVING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC WAVES Original Filed Feb. 2'7, 1943 1:171 5 9a 75 475A 7 0575001? W050 M! fl/mal? 94; 93 96 7 Q Z Z J 5M5? 0575001? lNVENTOR E ma/14s A 5077/51? ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 6, 1 951 nncsrvmol SYSTEM FOR anaemic WAVES Thomas 'L. Gottier, Princeton, N. J ass'ignor'to Radio Gorporation of America, -.a corporation of Delaware Original application February 21, .1.943 .LSeriallNo. 3177339. Divided and this applicatiqnflanuary "9, 1946,"Serial Nat-39,996

( Cl. Ew 205) The present invention "relates to the reception of electric waves, and .more particularly to the reception, substantially without interference from unwanted noise components, of transmitted modulated waves of which one complete-side band and only a-portion or substantially ,a portion of the remaining sideband is utilized for the transmission of intelligence. This invention is a division of my copendi-ng application, Serial No. 477,339, which was filed February 27, 1943, now Patent No. 2,394,544, granted February 12, 1946.

A. system of transmission in which one side iband is partially suppressed is employed-at the present time for transmitting image intelligence in television systems. Phase and frequency modulations of the received signals are very often present and appear in the demodulated output of the receiver as interfering signals usually referred to as noise. In the visual reproduction of transmitted television images, these interfering signals cause image distortions which spoil the appearance of the produced image.

The major object of the present invention is to eliminate interfering signals of the kind mentioned above from the demodulated output of radio receiving apparatus.

Another object of the invention is to provide for the elimination of frequency and. phase modulation eiiects in the production of an image in a television receiver.

A further object is to provide an arrangement in a radio receiver for producing phase or frequency shifts of a local oscillator to offset the effect of phase or frequency shifts in a received signal.

A still further object is to provide a novel arrangement including an oscillator and an associated reactance tube for shiftin the oscillator frequency to compensate for frequency changes in a signal wave.

Other and more specific objects of the invention will become apparent and suggest themselves to thos skilled in the art to which the invention is directed upon reading the following specification and claim in connection with the drawings in which:

Fig. l is a schematic block. diagram of an electric wave receiver embodying the invention and being suitable for use as a television receiver; and

Fig. 2 shows the filtering characteristic of the filters of Fig. 1.

Referring to Fig. 1, there are shown the principal elements of a television receiver which may be similar in detail to that shown in Fig. 6 of Patent No. 2,300,501, granted to G. L. Grundman-n on November 3, 1942. Thetreceiver iis-aOI the superheterodyne type, comprising a gradio frequency amplifier I1 fed from a communication channel, transmission line -.or antenna indicated at 16, a first detector or mixer :stage 18, and an oscillator indicated generally vby reference character'fiil.

"The oscillator '19 includes an oscillator tube 82 which provides the locally :generate'd frequency to be supplied in operationof the 1 system :to the mixer TE'B zwhoreincorrettionior distortion due :to phase or ifvrequencyshifts tin thensignalcarrier is aoibtai-ned. A ztuned circuit-.01 inst-work, in general ref-the Hartley type, is indicated aby th meterence character 83 and comprises an inductance 84 having two coupled sections and a circuit including a resistor 86 and a condenser 81 which serves to tune the inductance 84. The oscillation frequency may be controlled by a range switch and its associated circuits or an adjustable inductance or capacity (not shown) or it may be changed in any other suitable manner. The resistance has a high value as compared with the capacity of the condenser 81.

A reactance tube 88 provides a fast acting automatic frequency control on the oscillator tube 82. Thefrequency of the oscillator 82 is shifted by means of the tube 88 so that the unwanted frequency or phase modulation in the received signal, as detected on the slope 9! of the response characteristic 92 of a filter 93, is materially reduced or substantially eliminated.

The derivation of the control voltage applied to the reactance tube 88 by way of a conductor 89 may be obtained a shown by taking a portion of the output from the mixer 78 and passing it through a limiter 94'to remove the amplitude modulation. Theresulting substantially square topped wave, which contains the unwanted frequency or phase modulation, is applied to the previously mentioned filter 93 which provides substantially 50 per cent response at the intermediate carrier frequency in as indicated on Fig. 2. The unwanted changes in phase or frequency appear as amplitude modulations in the output of the filter 93 and are detected in a detector 96 before being applied to the control grid 9'1 of the reactance tube 88 by way of the conductor 89; The polarity of the signal appearing in the conductor 89 is such that a shift of the oscillator frequency produced by the reactance tub limits undesired frequency modulations.

The circuits of the reactance tube 88, the oscillator, filter, etc, are preferably broadly tuned so as to keep the delayismall and thereby provide fast acting frequency changes of the oscillator 19 to counteract the unwanted phase or frequency shifts of the incoming signal.

The mixer i8 feeds desired signals to the final output connection 98 by way of a filter 99, and a detector llll. The connection 98, it will be understood, isin communication in the usual manner with a translating device such as image producing apparatus when the receiver of Fig. 1 is used as a television receiver. The term image as used herein refers to the representation of a view, picture, object, map, plan, or any other subject matter. The usual sound equipment is, or may be employed, but since it forms no part ,of the present invention, it is not shown. Electrical signals representing the sound accompaniment may be prevented from appearing in the output connection 93 in the manner pointed out in the Grundmann patent above referred to. If desired, intermediate frequency amplification may be employed between the filter 99 and the detector NH. The characteristic of the filter 99 is like that shown in Fig. 2.

Having now described the invention, What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is the following:

A receiving system for electric waves comprising means for selecting a desired signal modulated wave having randomly occurring frequency modulations, an oscillator, a mixer stage following the signal selecting means for deriving an intermediate frequency signal from the desired signal, a branched circuit, one branch of said branched circuit comprising a limiter to limit the successive peaks of a selected wave to a substantially uniform value, detuned filtering means coupled to the output of said limiter, said filtering means serving to produce amplitude variations in accordance with said randomly occurring modulations, a wave detector connected to the output of said filtering means, a reactance tube, means whereby the reactance tube is effective to vary the frequency of said oscillator, a connection from said wave detector to vary the effectiveness of the reactance tube, another branch of said branched circuit including a second detuned filtering means for passing the amplitude varying signals of the selected wave which have been freed from the effects of randomly occurring modulations, and a wave detector connected to the output of said secondnamed filtering means for producing signals capable of causing operation of a reproducing device.

THOMAS L. GOTTIER.

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